Over the Crescent Moon

We are still trying to find ways to replace all the black plastic cauldrons that we have been using for toy storage in Blaze's room (lef...

Yesterday afternoon, Blaze and I went to our local history museum for the first time, so we could see a small show of model trains. The trai...

It was time to introduce King Equals to the math gnomes, but he's supposed to be dressed all in royal purple and I didn't have any p...

Ocean in a bottle: We have been learning all about Lewis and Clark trying to find a NorthWest passage to the Pacific Ocean, so for this week...

These were the inspiration for this week's posts about peg dolls. I spent a couple evenings this week working on a set of math gnomes fo...

For the bendy doll's babies, I use the smallest size of the little wooden game piece people. For the most part, these are just wrapped i...

Last year, when we were renting a house, I had started doing some wooden toy making. It was something I was really enjoying and would like t...

I made a pouch to hold a set of marbles for Blaze. I started by wrapping a mason jar with wool roving, to get the size and shape I wanted fo...

Our big project this week has been making a set of toy soldiers. Since we've been learning about the Revolution, Blaze has been talking ...